Posidonius

Posidonius (Greek: ???????????) "of Rhodes" (? ?????) or, alternatively, "of Apameia" (? ???????) (ca. 135 BCE - 51 BCE), was a Greek Stoic philosopher, politician, astronomer, geographer, historian, and teacher. He was acclaimed as the greatest polymath of his age.

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Posidonius (also spelled Poseidonius), nicknamed "the Athlete", was born to a Greek family in Apamea, a Roman city on the river Orontes in northern Syria, and probably died in Rome or Rhodes.

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Posidonius completed his higher education in Athens, where he was a student of the aged Panaetius, the head of the Stoic school.

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